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Willard D. "Wick" Rowland is an American executive who is president and CEO emeritus of Colorado Public Television (KBDI/12), a PBS station in Denver, Colorado. He is professor emeritus and dean emeritus of the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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Willard D. "Wick" Rowland is an American executive who is president and CEO emeritus of Colorado Public Television (KBDI/12), a PBS station in Denver, Colorado. He is professor emeritus and dean emeritus of the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Rowland holds a BA in history from Stanford University, an MA in communication from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. from the Institute for Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[ citation needed ] He was conferred as dean emeritus and professor emeritus by University of Colorado at Boulder and is a research scholar in the fields of public broadcasting in the US, mass communications and violence in the media. He attended the Catlin-Gabel school in Portland, Oregon and graduated from the St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire.
Rowland was granted a Fulbright Specialist placement in the field of broadcasting, media policy development and communication/journalism education in Ethiopia.
Rowland served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Jamaica working in instructional broadcasting and adult literacy projects. “I wasn’t on the ground more than three weeks before I realized that I needed a much deeper education in media and development policy. The then ‘dominant paradigm’ didn’t explain much of what I was experiencing in the Jamaican bush. Coming to Annenberg gave me a chance to begin developing a whole new, more critical and culturally conscious approach to media history and policy issues, particularly with regard to public service questions." [1]
Rowland served as dean of the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Journalism and Mass Communication from 1987 to 1999. [2] He was conferred as dean emeritus and professor emeritus status by the University of Colorado. In August 1999, he was named president of KBDI/12. [3] Rowland was named "Television Person of the Year" by "The Denver Post" for 2010. [4]
Rowland was the first vice-president of research during the early days of PBS. That is where he coined the phrase "closed-captioning" for the newly developed process for transmitting the written word on a television screen for the hearing impaired.[ citation needed ]
In Variety on January 22, 2011 [5] he was quoted as saying, "You're spending a great deal of political capital on the Hill just to keep what you've got, instead of being able to look ahead to growing the pie. That's probably the most serious and misunderstood consequence of these periodic bouts that we have. I used to think that they were just periodic events of no significance, but now I think it's a way of keeping a lid on (us)."
In his writings, he suggests how the system could equip itself to develop a more coherent, visionary agenda for its own future and the nation’s media policies." Rowland testified before Congress in February 2009 about the Satellite Home Viewing Extension Reauthorization Act (SHVERA) on behalf of PBS. [6]
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)Willard D. ("Wick") Rowland, president and CEO of Colorado Public Television and KBDI in Denver, was presented the 2009 Advocacy Award by the Association of America's Public Television Stations.